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SpaceX is working to develop an ultra-low-cost launch system called Starship that could reach the moon and Mars.
Company founder Elon Musk said progress on the system has been exponential in recent months.
The company’s first prototype of the rocket …

SpaceX successfully launched and landed a Mars rocket prototype on Thursday night in south Texas.
The launch of the vehicle, called Starhopper, ignited several brush fires, which emergency workers quickly addressed. But embers rekindled the fire over…

SpaceX successfully launched, hovered, and landed a small steel rocket ship called Starhopper on Thursday.
The vehicle is an early prototype of Starship: a far larger system that’s designed to send people to the moon and Mars.
Starhopper lifted off a…

SpaceX plans to launch a small rocket ship called Starhopper in Texas on Wednesday. Although the vehicle was briefly engulfed by a fireball last week, it emerged mostly undamaged.
Starhopper is a test bed for a much larger vehicle, called Starship, w…

SpaceX tried to launch, hover, and land a small steel rocket ship called Starhopper on Wednesday in South Texas.
The vehicle is an early prototype of Starship, a far larger system designed to send people to the moon and Mars.
Just after Starhopper’s …

Elon Musk says SpaceX may land cargo on the moon in two years, then people a year or two after that, using the company’s forthcoming Starship rocket system.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration wants NASA to land astronauts on the lunar surface in 202…

Buzz Aldrin was one of two astronauts to walk on the moon for the first time on July 20, 1969.
On the eve of the Apollo 11 mission’s 50th anniversary, Aldrin spoke to Omega, which supplied the watch he wore on the lunar mission.
Aldrin recounted the …

NASA landed the first humans on the moon 50 years ago, on July 20, 1969. A towering Saturn V rocket helped send the Apollo 11 astronauts there.
SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk, is developing Starship: a new launch system to land on th…

SpaceX test-fired a small rocket ship in Texas on Tuesday night. The test was to set the stage for a bigger “hop-and-hover” launch.
However, a huge fireball erupted around the vehicle, called Starhopper, a few minutes after the test. Some locals reco…

The last time a person visited the moon was in December 1972, during NASA’s Apollo 17 mission.
Over the decades, NASA has planned to send people back to the moon but has yet to succeed. The Trump administration wants to get astronauts back there by 2…